If you ever do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy M23, you can quickly reach saturation of its internal memory. . In recent years, manufacturers have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. That said, transferring data without a computer can be problematic. You may have heard of a fairly effective technique, using a USB flash drive.
We are going to teach you in this article how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy M23? To do this, to begin with, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this action, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy M23.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Samsung Galaxy M23?
Before presenting the process for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy M23, we will summarize the advantages of this technique. In general, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially when we don't really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes very therefore. We suddenly have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is huge, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K they can be saturated very quickly.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy M23 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Samsung Galaxy M23 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly retrieve files that a colleague has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Samsung Galaxy M23.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Samsung Galaxy M23?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy M23 , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read USB flash drive on Samsung Galaxy M23?
First thing to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy M23. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the curves of your device for a few minutes, you must have noticed rather quickly that there was no USB socket on it. This is thanks to a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will have to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply for a few euros on the internet or in specialized stores.
Finally, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your Samsung Galaxy M23 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy M23, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Samsung Galaxy M23?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly teach you how to transfer data between a USB flash drive and your Samsung Galaxy M23? Either way, the process is similar. Follow the guidelines below to do so:
- Download a data manager in the event that the native application of your phone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy M23
- Connect a USB key or an external hard drive
- Open your file manager
- Find the data you want to transfer to one of the two directories, you should see your USB key appear in the storage locations
- Now do "Copy / Paste" or "Cut / Paste" depending on what you want to do between the two storage locations
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